\Gin"ger*bread`\, n.
A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and
sometimes made in fanciful shapes. ``Gingerbread that was
full fine.'' --Chaucer.



{Gingerbread tree} (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from
   the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See {Doom
   Palm}.

{Gingerbread work}, ornamentation, in architecture or
   decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.